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Thematically echoing overtly political poets such as Milton Acorn and Dorothy Livesay, Kamstra's streetwise poetry bears witness to a superficial world, which is relieved only by the occasional glimmer of a resilient human spirit.

In the important book, well-regarded consultant and ex-policy analyst W.R. Clement proposes that the current conflicts in the Middle East are part of a larger change underway in the Islamic world.

In 2009, over 50% of Canadian dentists were between the ages of fifty and sixty-five. As they decide to move on to retirement, challenging questions arise regarding how to sell their practices and finance their retirement. To make matters worse, there will soon be more dentists selling their practices and retiring than there will be purchasers. The Transition Coach 2.0: A Canadian Dentist's Guide to a Perfect Retirement helps focus all of a de...

Orphaned during her university years, Catherine Graham discovered poetry through grief. She says, "My connection to loss is connected to place, the water-filled limestone quarry I grew up beside. In the beginning of my poetic journey, in my book Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003), the quarry was in the physical world, a place outside of me. The journey took a turn in my second book, The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008), beginning my creative deta...

The first selected poems of David W. McFadden.

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We're Here for a Good Time" -- "Raise a Little Hell" -- "The Boys in the Bright White Sportscar" -- all Canadian anthems -- all recorded by Trooper. The Globe and Mail calls them "honest-to-God Canadian legends". The Toronto Sun lauds the ongoing strength of their "Boomer/Gen X cachet". They have sold millions of albums, have travelled tens of thousands of miles, and, for thirty years, have borne first-hand witness to an amazing era in popular...

Growing up on Toronto's desolate margins in the eighties, sixteen-year-old Mel Sprague has a lot on her mind: The A-bomb. Acid rain. Where her dad's been hiding out for the last fifteen years... Mel's younger sister, Lora, knows that despite her sister's 'talent for misery, ' Mel's preoccupations aren't unusual. After all, Mel might stay out all night now and again, but in the Sprague family, teenagers are troubled by definition. When she vani...

In Roseanne Carrara's "A Newer Wilderness", the world's rich and compelling past buckles and swells beneath our feet, and its abiding influence rises like geothermal steam into the present. Powerful voices from history and legend issue forth and mingle with our familiar, circadian surroundings. These poems serve to remind us that our future need not cost us our past, that our capacity for intellect need not diminish our basic humanity, and tha...

As a society, we're exhausted. Today's hurried life entraps us at every level: from the early morning bolt out the door, to increasing workloads with reduced resources, escalating family responsibilities, social obligations, committee meetings, and exercise classes. We have packed away our passions to let the minutiae of life take over. Rather than live in harmony with our spirit, we buy a bigger truck or recarpet the living room. While some o...

The Insomniac Library is proud to republish for the first time in over twenty years Marian Engel's memorable first novel, Sarah Bastard's Notebook. First published in 1968 by Longman Canada, the novel tells the funny and frustrating story of thirty-year-old ex-academic Sarah Porlock as she makes her way through the minefields of career and love in late-1960s Toronto.

Gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, an idiot savant child and a gun-toting doughnut shop manager are some of the disparate characters that populate Stan Rogal's first novel. Beginning at vastly different points, geographically and emotionally, these seemingly unconnected people are woven together in the taut fabric of a story that follows the sweet sadness of the search for lost youth. The characters' paths move together...

Ever walk down the street and find yourself overcome by the feeling that everyone is staring at you? Well, they are. The main reason is the broccoli between your teeth, but more importantly, they're thinking, "Isn't that the rock star who just killed himself?" or "My, she sure looks like a young Jean Chrétien." Whether through accident, cosmic justice or bad lighting, there are uncanny, if not unwholesome, similarities between plenty of famous...

This is an anthology of critical writing on Black Canadian culture. The anthology is meant to convey the idea of a burgeoning response to Black Canadian cultural expression and what it means both for various Black communities and the Canadian nation. The anthology departs from uncritical celebration to critically engage with Black Canadian expressive cultures. The essayists do more than celebrate Canadian nationalism: they attempt to cast a co...

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For over seven years, William Burrill has been baring his soul (and any other damn thing he wants) in his 'Naked Eye' column in Toronto's 'eye Weekly'. It has been a rocky road, seeing the world through Bill's bloodshot eyes. The bumpy night usually starts in the late afternoon in some bar and ends -- well, who can remember? Now in this book, Burrill finally has chance to remember in this collection of very personal rants, ruminations and obse...

Exstasy: too little leaves you gutless and stunted. Too much and you have got the 'Exstatic Almanac', 365 exstatic poems for the sublime year. These poems are signposts on the road to revolutionary ruin and radical redemption. They are at one the record of an improvisatory exstasy and the imaginative impetus for the implosion of your psyche. In the ancient tradition of divinatory calendars, the 'Exstatic Almanac' shreds the year to come -- a h...

When Marsh Cole's body is found in Samson Brindle's pool, who is to blame? Was it suicide, or the vengeful ghost of Sylvian Oulette? From acclaimed poet and playwright R M Vaughan comes the story of three neurotic gay men who fall in love and proceed to torture each other to death -- a twisted fable about love, jealousy, murder, and talking back from the grave.

An anthology of poetry and photography exploring the topic of AIDS in three sections: Love, Loss and Death.

Twenty short stories that capture the intensity of human relationships.